More food for your buck

Defense Department reviewing military commissaries

January 5, 2014

When active-duty military members, retirees and their families shop for their groceries at the commissary – or grocery store – at Minot and Grand Forks Air Force bases, they save an average of 30......

takkak

I did my 20+ years. They build the new dorm for the kids on base with kitchens, then don't pay them BAS, so they eat at dining facility and spend base pay money on food to eat in kitchen in their dorm rooms. Just not too sure commisaries are vital.

MarkHighwater

I guess everyone has to be as thrifty as possible after Bush/Cheney collapsed the economy in 2008 with 10 trillion of debt and 10 jobless souls of what they are calling the "great recession"....thanks Bush/Cheney and friends.

73Hockey

"we support the Military"? So we all complain about not being able to keep up with expenses due to big oil in the area but an E-4 (CPL/SPC/SrA) married with two kids is able to qualify for food stamps. Tell me again how Military life is so good.